NYC & New Jersey Architectural Lighting & Shade Design
We bring 25 years of architectural lighting & shade design practice to the New York metropolitan area — Manhattan and Brooklyn apartments, townhouse gut renovations, and the custom homes and estates of northern New Jersey, Westchester, and Fairfield County. It is the most demanding residential market in the country, and we work with the architects, interior designers, and builders who set its standard.
Why NYC Metro Homeowners and Designers Choose Us
Design-Led, Not Vendor-Led We are a lighting studio, not a smart-home dealer. Our work begins during schematic design and is structured around the architectural and interior design intent rather than around the equipment we sell. Architects and interior designers find that they can use us the way they would use any other consultant — as a peer.
Built for Apartments and Townhouses Shallow plenums, concrete slabs, landmarked façades, co-op board alteration agreements, and tight work-hour windows. We specify trimless and low-profile fixtures that fit the ceiling you actually have, centralize control equipment to keep panels out of living space, and document to the standard building managers and expediters expect.
Full-Scope Studio Lighting design. Fixture specification. Lighting control. Motorized shades. Landscape lighting. One studio, one point of contact, one documentation standard. No parade of subcontractors.
Lutron and Crestron Authorized designers for Lutron RadioRA 3, HomeWorks, and Crestron Home. Keypad-based control replaces banks of switches with a small number of beautifully engraved stations, programmed for the way the household actually lives.
NYC Metro Service Areas
Manhattan and Brooklyn Upper East Side · Upper West Side · Tribeca · SoHo · West Village · Chelsea · Brooklyn Heights · Park Slope · Cobble Hill
Northern New Jersey Jersey City · Hoboken · Alpine · Englewood Cliffs · Saddle River · Franklin Lakes · Ridgewood · Wyckoff · Montclair · Short Hills · Summit
Westchester and Fairfield County Scarsdale · Rye · Bronxville · Bedford · Greenwich · Darien · New Canaan
We also work on weekend and second homes across the Hudson Valley, the Jersey Shore, and the Hamptons.
Our Services
Lighting Design
A complete lighting plan for the home — interior, exterior, façade, and landscape — coordinated with the architecture from schematic design forward. Lumen calculations, beam angles, color temperature, and dimming curves tuned to the room, the finishes, and the way the household actually uses the space.
Fixture Specification
A curated palette from DMF, Lucetta, Luminii, WAC, and Visual Comfort, including DMF’s protected specification channel — a quieter, more architectural fixture line not available through general distribution.
Lighting Control
Lutron RadioRA 3, HomeWorks, and Crestron Home systems. Centralized control with beautifully engraved keypads, scheduled scenes, and app access where useful. The goal is a house that does the right thing on its own.
Motorized Shades & Curtains
Crestron, Lutron, and Screen Innovations. Roller shades, Roman shades, drapery, and dual-track sheer-and-blackout configurations — essential for floor-to-ceiling glass and city-facing bedrooms — all coordinated with the lighting and integrated into the same scenes.
Landscape Lighting
Garden Light LED, Coastal Source, and FX Luminaire. Brass and machined aluminum fixtures with 20-year warranties. Terraces, rooftop gardens, façades, and estate grounds unified with the interior scenes.
The C4 Approach in New York and New Jersey
We engage during schematic design, in close collaboration with the architect, interior designer, and builder. Design fees are credited toward the fixture and control package on full-scope engagements — so the design investment funds itself through the system we specify.
We are deliberately easy for the trade to work with. Documentation matches your sheet standards. RFIs are answered the same day. Field visits are scheduled around the build calendar and the building’s work rules. Final aiming and scene tuning are done with you and the client in the finished home.
Ready to Discuss a New York or New Jersey Project?
The best moment to bring in a lighting studio is during schematic or early design-development, but we are comfortable engaging later when the project warrants it.
Contact:
- Email: info@c4light.com
- Phone: +1 (917) 546-7400
- Service area: Manhattan · Brooklyn · Northern New Jersey · Westchester · Fairfield County
Share drawings or photos and tell us about the timeline. We will tell you honestly whether we’re the right fit for the project.